In a charged exchange on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Senator Tom Cotton firmly rebutted host Kristen Welker’s implications about former President Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Welker questioned the appropriateness of creating campaign content at military grave sites, suggesting that Trump’s visit was politically motivated.

However, Cotton corrected her, explaining that Trump was there at the invitation of Gold Star families, not for political exploitation.

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“Bottom line, though, I guess, Senator, is it ever appropriate to make campaign content at military grave sites?” Welker posed, framing the discussion around the ethical implications of such actions.

Cotton responded emphatically, detailing the personal nature of Trump’s visit, which was requested by the families of fallen service members. “He didn’t take campaign photos. These families, Gold Star families, whose children died because of Joe Biden Kamala Harris’s incompetence, invited him to the cemetery, and they asked him to take those photos because, as they told me yesterday when I spoke to Kelly Barnett and Darren Hoover, the parents of Taylor Hoover, who has Arkansas ties, they don’t get to go to the beach on Labor Day. They don’t get to have barbecues. This is their one chance to have a memory of their children to commemorate their service and honor their sacrifice. They wanted President Trump there. They wanted to take those photos,” Cotton explained.

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The senator contrasted the active participation of Trump with the absence of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who were notably uninvolved in the commemorative event. “You know who the families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, DC. She was four miles away, ten minutes. She could have gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them,” Cotton asserted.

Welker interjected to note that Biden and Harris did meet with the families during the dignified transfer of the service members, a point that Cotton acknowledged but countered by emphasizing the broader context of the administration’s foreign policy failures. “It is because of her and Joe Biden’s incompetence those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan,” Cotton concluded, placing the blame squarely on the current administration for the circumstances leading to the service members’ deaths.

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The conversation highlighted ongoing tensions and differing perspectives on the respect and remembrance owed to America’s military personnel, with Cotton defending the intentions behind Trump’s visit as a genuine tribute to fallen heroes, in stark contrast to the perceived neglect by Biden and Harris.

It is worth noting that Kamala Harris bragged about being the last person in the room with Joe Biden when the Afghanistan decision was made.

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Former President Donald Trump recently spotlighted grievances from Gold Star families regarding Kamala Harris’s handling of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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These families, whose children were killed during an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul Airport on August 26, 2021, expressed their distress in a series of videos Trump posted on X, criticizing Harris for her role and response.

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The controversy escalated following a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where Trump honored the 13 U.S. service members killed in the bombing.

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The event, which occurred last week, led to a verbal altercation after Harris accused Trump of turning a solemn ceremony into a “political stunt.”

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Her criticism was met with sharp rebukes from the Gold Star families, who supported Trump’s presence at the ceremony, stating that they had personally requested his attendance and the taking of photos and videos.

Jim McCollum, father of US Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, responded to Harris’s remarks in one of the videos, questioning, “How do you sleep at night knowing… you are responsible for the death of our 13 kids?”

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The families defended the event’s dignity and denied any assault on cemetery staff, contrary to claims by the Army that a staffer was pushed aside during the altercation.

Darin Hoover, father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, and other family members articulated that their sons and daughters had managed to “adapt and overcome” despite the difficult circumstances, turning them into heroes.

They accused Harris of lacking empathy and a basic understanding of their loss.

Christy Shamblin, whose daughter-in-law Sergeant Nicole Gee was among those killed, directly addressed Harris in her video, lamenting the Vice President’s failure to personally reach out to the families. “You have failed for three years and eight months to acknowledge our kids, to acknowledge me, you don’t know me, you’ve never spoken to me,” McCollum echoed in frustration.

Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance also weighed in, criticizing Harris at a campaign rally, and accused her of failing to properly manage the situation in Afghanistan, leading to unnecessary loss of life without accountability, “And they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job and there hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing,” Vance declared.

The sentiments expressed by the Gold Star families highlight deep wounds left by the Afghanistan withdrawal and the perceived neglect by the Biden-Harris administration.